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Anthropic has partnered with NVIDIA, signing a cloud computing services agreement totaling $35 billion. The agreement aims to provide compute support for Anthropic’s AI model training.
Odaily News: The BIP-110 community restarted the stalled minority fork chain this weekend, which had stalled on August 8. The chain has mined over 800 blocks. Blockchain developer Luke Dashjr switched the proof-of-work algorithm from SHA-256d to Blake2b and reduced the block size to 300 KB.The BIP-110 minority chain forked at Bitcoin block height 961,632, then stalled; at height 961,640, Silent Wave mined a block under the new Blake2b consensus rules. The project is expected to release new software on September 1.The fork chain's asset has not been listed on any centralized exchange, and CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap have not displayed its token code either. BIP-110 developer Chris Guida stated that the chain does not use centralized KYC exchanges, advocating for the acquisition and use of Bitcoin through the trading of goods and services. (Bitcoin.com News)
Privacy-focused public chain Zano activated its sixth hard fork (HF6) at block height 3,833,000 on August 31. The upgrade is now live on the mainnet, marking the largest upgrade in the network's seven-year history.HF6 introduces Gateway Addresses, providing centralized exchanges, DEXs, and cross-chain bridges with directly trackable single balances and instant synchronization, while preserving existing addresses and their privacy model. Native ZANO can now be transferred non-custodially across chains to Ethereum, Solana, and TON, where it becomes public on external networks, and privacy protection is restored upon transferring back to Zano.The upgrade also tightens consensus validation rules and enhances wallet encryption, mining pool fault tolerance, payment IDs, anti-DoS restrictions, SOCKS5 proxy, and RPC interfaces.HF6 is a prerequisite for the EVM-compatible chain Zano Execution Layer, which is currently in development and has no fixed launch date yet; the next-generation consensus protocol Zenith has been included in the 2027 roadmap. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to US officials, Trump is considering approving a limited strike plan against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, aimed at preventing it from rebuilding air defense and missile capabilities targeting ships. The plan has been backed by the Defense Secretary and is expected to be officially finalized following the escalation in fighting over the weekend.
Webull Canada officially launches cryptocurrency trading services, partnering with Coinbase for asset custody.
Odaily News: Brian Armstrong posted on X, stating that Coinbase now supports AI agents trading stocks, in addition to cryptocurrencies, derivatives, and other assets. AiFi (Agent Finance) has arrived, and users can get started through their preferred agent framework or agent.
Odaily News: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) are advancing cryptocurrency regulatory rulemaking, having solicited public comments on the definitions of swaps, security-based swaps, and emerging products, as well as on the boundaries of regulatory jurisdiction.Former CFTC Chairman Chris Giancarlo, former CFTC commissioners Brian Quintenz and Sharon Brown-Hruska, and former SEC commissioner Steven Wallman, among others, stated in a joint letter supported by Kalshi that similar risks should be subject to similar regulation, avoiding overlapping rules that increase compliance costs.Kalshi estimates that offshore perpetual contract trading volume will exceed $9 trillion in 2025, up from approximately $2.8 trillion two years ago. Chris Giancarlo said that if U.S. regulation is calibrated to actual risk rather than maximum burden, related liquidity could flow back to the United States.Last week, the SEC submitted proposed revisions to custody rules for investment advisers and investment companies to the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) for review, aiming to clarify requirements for regulated investment institutions providing digital asset custody services. The SEC's "Reg Crypto" proposal has been published in the Federal Register, with public comments open until October 20. (Decrypt)
Odaily News: Tim Cook's 15-year tenure as Apple CEO has officially come to an end. Apple's head of hardware engineering, John Ternus, formally took over the role on September 1, now leading Apple with a market value of approximately $4.67 trillion. Cook will transition to the role of Executive Chairman.Since taking over as CEO in 2011, Cook has led Apple's revenue from approximately $108 billion to $416 billion in 2025, with the company continuing to expand in scale.Upon assuming his new role, Ternus will face a series of challenges, including Apple Intelligence, Siri, and AI strategy. His first major test will be Apple's product launch event on September 9.
Daily token throughput on the B.AI platform has exceeded 1.1 trillion, marking a 52,133-fold exponential increase compared to the 21.1 million tokens processed on its launch day, April 9. In less than five months, the platform has accomplished an architectural leap in compute infrastructure from the millions to the trillions. Since the free campaign began, daily throughput has grown approximately 242-fold, with a cumulative 14-day total reaching 6.86 trillion tokens, while cumulative newly registered API users have surpassed 196,000. Faced with a continuous influx of massive high-concurrency traffic and complex Agent workflows, B.AI’s underlying infrastructure has proven exceptionally stable. This steep growth curve stands as a definitive vote of confidence from developers globally, who have endorsed B.AI’s compute foundation through real-world code deployment and high-frequency API calls. B.AI will continue to develop as the premier global provider of inclusive compute power and an Agent finance foundation. Log in to B.AI now to seamlessly integrate into a trillion-token compute matrix.
Odaily News: Greek.live Research Institute's Adam stated on the X platform that Deribit has been continuously rolling out updates more than once a week recently. Spot liquidity has now been merged into Coinbase, and the majority of reserve assets have been custodied with Coinbase. These arrangements are aimed at preparing for the merger on September 9.Adam stated that Coinbase may deserve more attention than many expect, as this merger is not a simple brand integration. Coinbase's spot trading, global user base, and institutional framework will be integrated with Deribit's options, derivatives liquidity, and trading infrastructure.For traders, spot, perpetual, and options trading were previously spread across different platforms. After the merger, Coinbase will consolidate spot, perpetuals, options, and futures into a single trading system. The derivatives layer will leverage a new-generation matching engine and further consolidate previously fragmented liquidity.
据官方公告，tZERO 集团与洲际交易所（ICE）于 2026年 8月 31 日宣布达成一系列合作协议，共同推进代币化证券市场建设。双方签署谅解备忘录（MOU），tZERO 将作为 ICE 旗下 NYSE 关联数字交易平台的首席设计合作伙伴，负责开发数字转移代理及经纪商-交易商基础设施，以支持代币化证券交易的链上结算。 ICE 同时宣布参与 tZERO 最新一轮融资，并获得 tZERO 区块链专利组合的授权许可，该专利组合涵盖 23 个专利族、103 项专利，覆盖合规转移逻辑、可升级智能合约框架等核心技术。此外，双方还将评估在 ICE 清算所中使用 tZERO 代币化资产进行抵押管理的可能性。
Odaily News, according to Bitcoin News monitoring, OCEAN operator Mummolin Inc. and co-founder Luke Dashjr issued a joint statement on August 29, agreeing to part ways. Luke Dashjr resigned as OCEAN Chairman, Chief Technology Officer, and Director, and Mummolin bought back all of his equity. Neither party disclosed the transaction amount nor Luke Dashjr's previous shareholding ratio. Both parties stated that the split stemmed from differing visions regarding the future direction of Bitcoin mining.The BIP-110 dispute subsequently escalated into a split of the Bitcoin chain. BIP-110, also known as the "Data Carve-out Temp Soft Fork," aims to restrict the use of Bitcoin transactions to store non-financial data, including content related to Ordinals. Before the activation period began, only 51 out of 2,016 blocks supported the proposal, accounting for 2.53%, falling below the 55% threshold required for activation.On August 8, nodes enforcing BIP-110 split from the Bitcoin main chain by rejecting blocks that did not support the proposal. On that day, the minority chain only produced 2 blocks before halting; since then, the chain mined 6 more blocks, bringing the total to 8 blocks. The initial alternative chain blocks were mined by the Roughnecks mining organization using OCEAN infrastructure.On August 10, other Bitcoin developers removed Luke Dashjr from the editor list of the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal repository, citing his involvement in BIP-110 and its editorial process. Luke Dashjr disputed this and stated that day that he would temporarily leave OCEAN to focus on Bitcoin and open-source development.Luke Dashjr is currently advancing a new project called CONVOY, using the X account @CONVOY_Mining. This project will continue his push for the decentralization of Bitcoin mining, though its specific structure and launch arrangements have not yet been announced. The X account was created in August 2026 and currently has 0 posts and fewer than 500 followers.OCEAN was founded by Mummolin and co-founded by Luke Dashjr in 2023, and previously secured a $6.2 million seed round led by Jack Dorsey. OCEAN operates under a non-custodial model, with mining rewards paid directly to miners rather than being held and distributed by the pool. OCEAN also developed the DATUM protocol, designed to give individual miners greater control over the transactions included in blocks they participate in mining. OCEAN stated that it will continue operating its transparent non-custodial mining pool and the DATUM protocol after Luke Dashjr's departure. According to Mempool.space data, OCEAN is still mining on the Bitcoin main chain.The change proposed by Luke Dashjr altered the proof-of-work algorithm of the alternative chain to Blake2b, which went live on the new chain at approximately 3:00 AM EST on August 30, making it a hard fork of the Bitcoin main chain. The new chain continued from block 961,639, which was mined before the chain stalled, and reduced mining difficulty fr
According to an official tweet from Cronos Network, the Cronos network was previously affected by a vulnerability exploit targeting the Tectonic protocol. Validator consensus triggered an emergency halt to block production to protect user assets. The on-chain state has been rolled back to pre-exploit levels, and the network resumed block production at 07:49 Beijing Time on August 31, 2026, starting from block height 90,896,189. Node operators can now upgrade to Cronos v1.7.8 and use the latest mainnet snapshot to restart their nodes. The network remains under continuous monitoring, with select protocols, RPC providers, block explorers, and cross-chain bridges gradually recovering. A full post-mortem report will be released by the team in the near future.
In a post, "White-Haired Stock God" Serenity stated that following NVIDIA's $3.5 billion investment in MediaTek, NVIDIA seems to be actively "picking" potential winners in the next-generation ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) space through capital and strategic partnerships, with Marvell and MediaTek poised to represent this cohort. NVIDIA's strategy mirrors its earlier backing of Neocloud's Nebius and CoreWeave. By fostering the growth of potential industry leaders and subsequently forging deep financial and strategic alliances with them, NVIDIA aims to cement its dominance within the AI infrastructure value chain. This strategy could exert a "second-order impact" on Broadcom, eroding its relative edge in the ASIC domain, while simultaneously incentivizing AMD, Broadcom, and select major cloud providers to deepen their collaborative efforts. Serenity argues that NVIDIA's moves warrant particular attention, as they will further solidify its strategic foothold in the AI inference market and potentially undermine the prior bearish thesis that hyperscalers' in-house ASIC development would pose a long-term challenge to NVIDIA.
According to Fortune, British serial entrepreneur Timothy Armoo stated bluntly during an interview that this is the most accessible era in human history for building wealth, offering little sympathy to Gen Zers who are lying flat over claims of a "dismal job market" and "AI stealing jobs." Armoo noted that "building small projects with AI" is the most direct path to wealth in 2026, with tools like ChatGPT and Claude available at little to no cost while social media platforms enable organic audience reach. Starting from scratch, Armoo launched a tutoring service at age 14, completed his first acquisition at 17, and sold his influencer marketing agency, Fanbytes, for an eight-figure sum at age 27. He has since established the Legon Fund, allocating approximately $6.7 million to specifically back minority AI entrepreneurs and break down funding barriers.
The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking has selected French supercomputing company Bull to build the LUMI-AI artificial intelligence supercomputer, which will be deployed at Finland's CSC data center. The system utilizes AMD Instinct MI430X GPUs and sixth-generation 256-core EPYC processors, delivering 2x HPC compute power and 10x AI compute power compared to the existing LUMI system, and is expected to open for use in H2 2027.
Odaily News: The suite covers over 60 EVM-compatible chains and provides AI agents with structured, verified, real-time on-chain data access through three methods: MCP, CLI, and Skills. Etherscan MCP supports programming agents like Claude and Codex in querying on-chain information via natural language; the CLI tool outputs results in JSON, table, or CSV format in the terminal and comes with an interactive interface; the Skills module includes built-in features such as Orchestrator, contract auditing, transaction debugging, and workflow orchestration. Etherscan stated that developers can refer to the official documentation to use these tools and can submit feedback or share applications built on top of them.
Odaily News – Robinhood's blockchain, Robinhood Chain, has recently seen a surge in trading activity. On August 30, the network processed a record 5.52 million transactions in a single day, with on-chain applications generating approximately $2.66 million in 24-hour revenue—surpassing Ethereum's roughly $1.3 million and trailing only Solana's $5.07 million.Meanwhile, Robinhood Chain recorded approximately $875 million in daily decentralized exchange (DEX) trading volume. Among this, the two major versions of Uniswap contributed around $432 million and $357 million in trading volume, respectively.Meme coin trading is one of the primary drivers behind this surge in activity. Data shows that Pons, a token launch platform on Robinhood Chain, created approximately 22,600 tokens in a single day, marking an increase of over 40% from the previous day. Together, GMGN, Pons, and Uniswap accounted for roughly 88% of the network's application revenue.Robinhood launched Robinhood Chain on July 1, initially focusing on the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) such as stocks. However, within just a few weeks of going live, meme coin trading quickly took center stage. Now, as the crypto market warms up, trading activity on Robinhood Chain has continued to intensify, with daily network transactions climbing from under 1 million in early July to over 5 million.Based on current data, the most active use case on Robinhood Chain is not tokenized stocks, but rather meme coin issuance and speculative trading. (CoinDesk)
According to Bloomberg, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that it will allocate SGD 220 million (approximately USD 173 million) over the next three years to support FinTech and innovation development, aiming to maintain its competitive advantage over rival financial hubs such as Hong Kong in the FinTech sector. The initiative will focus on cultivating FinTech talent and accelerating the research, development, application, and deployment of cutting-edge FinTech. MAS plans to support at least 1,000 internship positions while driving the financial industry to prepare for emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. MAS stated that the program aims to further enhance the innovation capabilities and competitiveness of Singapore's financial sector.
According to the official announcement, Bitget has listed the USDT-margined PONS perpetual contract, supporting up to 20x leverage. The contract trading bot will be available simultaneously. For more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.